Towards revision of the Single Market Policy

摘要

In its work programme for 2015, the European Commission (EC) announced it would present a "renewed integrated strategy for the Single Market, including improvement of mutual recognition and standardisation, namely in the construction sector, and with a focus on SMEs". The new Commissioner in charge of the Internal Market, Elzbieta Biertkowska, arrived in her position in early November 2014, and surely needed time to get acquainted with the matter. But now the time has come. In its first official move, on 2 March, the Council - in its competitiveness formation -adopted conclusions on the Single Market Policy. In view of the weak growth and high level of unemployment in the EU, these conclusions set guidelines for the EC in order to provide fresh impetus to the deepening and implementation of the single market policy.